Julian is a student in a school that specialises in teaching gifted children the Arts of the Mind, a discipline originally developed to control the mysterious concept referred to as 'consciousness'. The school is run by a charismatic, yet mysterious man, known only as Teacher to his students. In the school the children learn to utilise subtle behavioural tools based on evolutionary laws that enable them to control untrained people. Julian's life is built around discipline and order, but the choices made by others long ago are about to change his life forever. He is forced to face his...

Charlie Walker is an exceptionally intelligent yet lonely boy, whose life is profoundly altered when his parents bring home Timmy, his new baby brother. Timmy suffers from EB, an incurable illness that causes him to receive horrible wounds from the lightest touch. Charlie is devastated at the thought of the grim prospects little Timmy faces in the future. One evening, he meets a stranger who claims he can help Charlie find a cure for his brother's illness. Despite believing the man is nothing more than a hallucination caused by the onset of schizophrenia - an illness that runs in his...